Punchbowl Town Square

revolutionary in the sense where now you have a government led by President Trump who is really going to force people to build wealth for what a concept, right? That's how much he cares about this country, that's how much he cares about our investment system. So the Trump accounts, if you are born during his administration, you get a $1,000 deposit in a tax benefit account. And you get that no matter what. All you have to be do is be born in this amazing country. Yes. And then, but for anyone under 18, you can sign up for a Trump account and get those same benefits. So I have two boys, a four and a half year old and a one and a half year old. They didn't qualify because they were born in 2021 and 2024. But I opened a Trump account for both of them because what that allows me to do is up to $5,000 a year for each child and have that money be professionally managed in a month. All right. AC. Why are we here so early? PT, I got to go PT. What I'm going to do Friday, I'm just for next 745 appointments. I'll just start later. Roger. Right after right after I PT will start and then depends if I'll do two hours or three hours past. Well, if you'll put out a schedule, we'll post it and repost it, won't we? All right. Wow. Get busy, AC shows all that energy you got stored up. What do we? Oh my God. I'm going to spend the clock. Look, who's got the punch ball? Hope you nobody you missed it. I actually just had to like throw a fit because my youngest wouldn't get out the door. Dragon his feet. He's about to beat. Well, he'll be 13 at the beginning next year. And good Lord. He's already starting the teenage stuff. He's like, I don't really feel it. I feel what? I'm just not feeling it. I don't care what you're feeling. You got to get out there. You got to go to school. I'm not feeling it, mom. Oh, oh, no more YouTube shorts for you. What are you talking about? What is this language you're speaking and get out? Did you not study for a test? Are you trying to avoid something that you're going to walk into that you're not prepared for? He's got to go. I'm not feeling it. I'm not feeling it. Good Lord. I don't think anybody really feels it. He goes to Catholic school. So, there are a lot of stricter than his older brother's school. So he can build a rosary. He probably didn't do an assignment that he told us he did. And then he doesn't want us to find out. It's something. I don't know what it is. But it has nothing to do with his friends because he wants to go to Taekwondo practice after school. And he wants to go to basketball practice after that. He's not he's feeling that he's not feeling going to school this morning, which is extra cool. I think he's gone. I think he just said he's out. I'm not feeling it. That's right. And his older brother looked at him like you're stupid. Don't what do you say in the mom? Like he's his older brother's 15. He's like looking at him shaking his head like this isn't going to go well. This is your first challenge. Like you're already failing it. This is terrible. I don't know that I'm feeling it this early, but here I am. And I did repost the punchball. So if you're in this space, let everybody know we're here early today. Apparently we've had a change in schedule. But it looks like we got plenty of people who are listening in. We certainly do appreciate you. So AC, what's going on in Georgia? Like I'm here and all kinds of crazy stuff. Well, the debate last night between Jackson and bottoms was on. I think what? Well, he, so he's not very good. I was a Bert Jones person, to be honest. And it was very hard to jump on board on the other side. Because you know, when you root for the one person, you find I don't like, you know, and you find all the bad qualities about the person that you really don't want. And then you have to like change gears immediately and go, well, I'd rather have Jackson than bottoms. So, you know, then you have to get your Jackson hat on. And, you know, so he does have good attributes, but his one thing is nervousness in a public debate. And so of course, Keisha was, you know, she was trained during the riots to come out and make excuses every five seconds about, you know, how she didn't know what she was doing. And she had a lot of people covering for her. And so I would say a large contingency of Georgia is going to vote on Jackson because they remember what it was like under Keisha bottoms. However, you've got the people like on the Georgia gang and other play and Jackson, kind of, he didn't make a mistake, but there, there were really good people who have spoken out for him that are regular citizens, like people who, you know, just regular. But then there's people that work for the Republican party. And that's good that they spoke out for him. But then that also gives people a way that the opposition goes in and goes, oh, it looks like this person right here has worked for so and so and so and so and so and so and so. And so all he did was hire people within the Republican establishment that's been doing these things and gets paid to travel around to do this. That's not right. So even though they were better at speaking and, you know, so that that was kind of a misstep. And then he did the ship right where he got former police detectives, former police union directors to come on and talk about their experience when Keisha ran the city as a mayor, which was a great idea. And then he showed a lot of the foster children that he's worked with over the years. And there's one commercial worries on like this stage where a lot of the foster children are telling him. And these are from, you know, every race, every creed, you know, like these are all kinds of children. And they get really emotional. And, you know, they're kind of they they get tearied together because of what the foster care system can do that's bad. And you need people in that situation that are good that, you know, help guide, you know, a lot of kids, but they miss a lot of kids because you can only handle so many. And so he speaks to that. So there's a lot of positives about him just he looked nervous when he was debating. And she looked, you know, slick, but I don't think that changes the trajectory of the vote. I think, you know, and the same typical people in Georgia that would be cheering on Keisha even though they were the same ones texting me whenever everything was going down, going, oh my god, I can't believe I voted for her for mayor instead of Mary Norwood. You know, those are the same ones that are now on her side again. And usually it has to do with like their mom and dads or Democrats or Democrats. And they grew up and went to Douglas High School over near where I live where she grew up and was right. So this is her territory over here. But when I, you know, walk around and I go to like the area grocery stores and, you know, talking in neighbors and like a lot of them remember what a nightmare. She was, they just want to know more about Jackson because they know they don't like her because she kind of left this area behind. She pushed for gentrification. Well, she did the worst thing. So she tried to cause division. What she and a lot of her, the nepotism of friends, they would buy properties when, you know, families would age out and the parent would die and the kids didn't want them. And there was a lot of back property taxes and then the city would take it over. So then they would have all of that information. And then they would go and purchase a large, you know, section of like west of 20 or south of 20. And then all of those individuals would hold onto those properties. No code enforcement would get onto them when it was overgrown or there was junk everywhere. They were allowed to sit on it. And then when the market was good or, you know, investors wanted to buy they would, they would, they would sell it at high cost. And then after contractors would come in, they would say, look, our city's being taken over. And they would go to these town halls and they would go to these little meetings and neighborhood groups and, you know, like in P used neighborhood, like units that have to do the little district. And they would say, well, we're doing our best. We just, I guess we're hot commodity people are just buying stuff up. But they wouldn't mention they were the ones selling the properties. And they were selling them to big investors that were going to build, you know, bigger homes, bigger neighborhoods. It's one thing to do that. And then to be open about it. You know what? That's the way that things go. People let go of their house. A lot of people want to move into Atlanta. That makes sense. But for them to cause division and to try to turn the existing people who have lived here for 40 years against the people who are investing. That is where they just wanted to wipe their hands of it. So that's kind of the behaviors that they have that I always kind of point out when we go to these neighborhood places. And I'll show like here, like this is the city official. This is the former, you know, police chief Turner who had this person, this person, this person purchased these properties. And then they resold it to this group who now the same people in the community are bashing. But they made money off of it. So they're just causing division and pointing elsewhere. They're the ones who want in the neighborhoods to change. And they should probably be honest about it rather than say that they're your friend. You need to know who actually cares about you and actually understand how markets work. And they're hiding that from you while they're benefiting monetarily when you yourself could be able to invest in these neighborhoods and then sell. And you could make money as well. But they're hiding that from you while they're pretending to protect you and care about you. And then I warned a lot of those same city individuals. Hey, what you're doing is you're selling off your neighborhoods. And then one day when you're not elected anymore because there's a whole different electorate, you can't complain when Atlanta is not the civil rights capital of the world. Like the people are just passing through here to go to Florida. You know, you failed at what made Atlanta the attractive city, the international city. Like you're the ones doing it just to line your pockets. So, you know, when you warn both sides, you know, it's open for Jackson to take it. It's just he needs to have the right motives and the right moves to be able to do so. But yeah, I guess I am hyper this morning. I thought I still needed a coffee. So getting up 30 minutes early. I don't think he did. Yeah, you're making me really feel like, you know, the crystal ball pole just came out and they gave a slight lead to the Democrats in North Carolina. And I didn't see Georgia on that list, but I'm getting kind of nervous for both of us because the Democrats know if they take Georgia or North Carolina, it's on. They're going to take the South. Yep, that's why Jackson. It's his like he's going to have to be more motivated to talk to this communities that our mom and pop Democrats. Like my dad was really good about pointing that out. I hope everybody knows what should we know? Come on, Kate. Where do you go? Come on, Kate. I'm telling you. I hope everybody knows that Republicans are 10,000 percent behind. We all need to grab our 20 friends and go to the polls, make a day of it, take vacation day. And yeah, you're you're fading, buddy. Where are you? You gotta get back in the zone. You're trucking and you got out of a zone. But we do. We do have to get the rural vote out. It's absolutely a must. Absolutely. And I think if Jackson spent time in Savannah, in Macon, in North Georgia, he needs to touch base. Yes. Make sure he's got plenty of signs just to remind people. North Georgia, you didn't have to worry about as much. But like especially South of Macon, Perry, Bibb County, Jones County, Gray, McDonough, Gwyneth. He really needs to like go and and get some people over in Gwyneth. Atlanta, Westside, he has a good chance. Maybe put a little bit more signs over in this area. Buckhead, he doesn't really have to concentrate on people who put signs in their yards. Midtown, it'll be touching go. It depends. He really needs to grab the gay community in Buckhead in Midtown because they have division and fighting going on there because a lot of them turn conservative just because of the whole trans issue and the communist issue because a lot of entrepreneurs in Atlanta are black and they're gay. And so a lot of times we forget they're going to believe in capitalism and they're not going to go for this DSA far left, let the government handle everything because they don't want to pay as many taxes and they want to be able to have their businesses explode. So he needs to be able to go and talk to those individuals and Decatur East Atlanta, I don't know because they are that's where the the hippies and more of the progressives hang out. That's where all the rioters came from. It's over in that area. That's why that area was not destroyed. And that's why you got Midtown and downtown and Buckhead that had a lot of the damage happen during those those crazy times. All you got to look at the areas that weren't damaged. And then you know that's where all the people who made who damaged everything. That's how you know where they live. I don't know about you all but I'm seeing a bunch of